Elena Ivanovna Deza (Russian: Елена Ивановна Деза, née Panteleeva; born 23 August 1961) is a French and Russian mathematician known for her books on metric spaces and figurate numbers.

Education and career

Deza was born on 23 August 1961 in Volgograd, and is a French and Russian citizen. She earned a diploma in mathematics in 1983, a candidate's degree (doctorate) in mathematics and physics in 1993, and a docent's certificate in number theory in 1995, all from Moscow State Pedagogical University.^[1]

From 1983 to 1988, Deza was an assistant professor of mathematics at Moscow State Forest University. In 1988 she moved to Moscow State Pedagogical University; she became a lecturer there in 1993, a reader in 1994, and a full professor in 2006.^[1]

Books

As well as many Russian-language books, Deza's books include:

• Dictionary of Distances (with Michel Deza, Elsevier, 2006)
• Encyclopedia of Distances (with Michel Deza, Springer, 2009; 4th ed., 2016)^[2]
• Figurate Numbers (with Michel Deza, World Scientific, 2012)^[3]
• Generalizations of Finite Metrics and Cuts (with Michel Deza and Mathieu Dutour Sikirić, World Scientific, 2016)^[4]
• Mersenne Numbers and Fermat Numbers (World Scientific, 2021)